“We used to be at the mercy of traders, now we buy our abaca fiber and our production guild (PG) is slowly earning profit,” says 33 years old Rudy Bendanillo,…

Continue ReadingFirst Abaca-Focused Indigenous Peoples Social Enterprise (Ipse) Owned, Managed By Higaunon Established In Iligan City
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First Abaca-Focused Indigenous Peoples Social Enterprise (Ipse) Owned, Managed By Higaunon Established In Iligan City

Subsistence agriculture is a typical mode of agriculture among the indigenous Higaunon and Kolibugan tribes in Barangay Kalilangan, Iligan City. Farming families till a small farm usually half-hectare (5,000 square…

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Transforming subsistence agriculture by enhancing abaca farmer

  SITUATION OVERVIEW At around 10 AM of March 31, suspected NPA forces, estimated by the local people to number at least a hundred, who earlier raided the house of…

Continue ReadingInternal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City
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Internal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City

Displacement and Armed Conflict Situationer A total of 234 families from the communities of Binasan, Baniogan, and Salingsing within the Bayug-Iligan ancestral domain and undetermined number from communities of Limonda,…

Continue ReadingHigaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army
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Higaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army

“The people have nowhere to go, except their farms,” Timuay Manda quipped. Timuay Lucenio Manda is the chief tribal chieftain of the Subanen ancestral domain in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur…

Continue ReadingQuarantine Enables IP Farmers to Expand their Farms
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Quarantine Enables IP Farmers to Expand their Farms

Partner Organization: Bread for the World The project’s main objective is that men and women IPs from the ancestral domains in Bayug-Iligan, Dulangan and Bayog Zambo Sur increased resource efficient…

Continue ReadingFormation of Production Guilds and Social Enterprises for the Economic Development of Indigenous Communities—FPG-SEEDIC
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Formation of Production Guilds and Social Enterprises for the Economic Development of Indigenous Communities—FPG-SEEDIC